Body Work - Cohen, Stephanie Kaplan

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Résumé :
Opening a copy of Body Work is like lifting the lid of a jewelry box to discover each gemstone carefully carved, polished, and sparkling. These poems resonate with intelligence, authenticity, delicious irony, concise and biting images, and deep empathy. The work in this insightful and unforgettable collection rank as Stephanie K. Cohen's finest. And there's not a faux jewel among them. - Pat Carr, author of The Death of a Confederate Colonel, and winner of the Iowa Fiction Award, Southwest Fiction Award, Library of Congress Marc IV Award, the Porter Fiction Prize, and others In Body Work, Stephanie Kaplan Cohen tells us, It's okay to love life... and to sing off key, and Forever is a lie. Enter her world. Visit with this wise woman and her words, an intoxicating distillation from an evolved, loving, intelligent, and earthy woman. Accept Cohen's invitation to explore the layers of her life: you will not be disappointed! Expect to laugh, learn, be moved and forever changed. - Linda Leedy Schneider, author of Some Days: Poetry of a Psychotherapist Stephanie Kaplan Cohen's poems are indelible because they are incredibly funny, genuine and are rooted in a complicated sympathy for herself and all those she thinks about and loves. She blurts out unspeakable truths that will make you laugh and cry in solidarity with her all too human and honest poems. - June S. Gould, Ph.D., Workshop leader for The International Women's Writing Guild, author of The Writer in All of Us and published poet

Biographie:
Stephanie Kaplan Cohen lives in Westchester, New York. Her work has appeared on NPR, in numerous literary magazines, university presses, anthologies and newspapers (including the New York Times). Stephanie is a proud member of the Authors Guild, and the Stephanie is an editor of the Westchester Review. Her memoir In My Mother's House was published by Woodley. Her poetry book Additions and Subtractions was published by Plain View Press and was nominated for a Pushcart prize. She has held positions as an elementary education teacher, a medical social worker, a teacher/therapist of emotionally disturbed children in the public schools of New York City, a social worker in Family Court, as well as a desk clerk on a Commodity Exchange. Additionally, Stephanie has enjoyed a life-long commitment to community service. She served as President of the Mental Health Division of Lexington School for the Deaf and as President of Westchester and Putnam County Alzheimer's Association. Stephanie served in numerous other volunteer positions, including vice-president of American Jewish Committee of Westchester and United Jewish Appeal of Westchester. Charles, of beloved memory, and Stephanie are the parents of three children, three in-law children, and nine grandchildren, all of whom are exceptional in all ways.